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Omg I love this, I wrote a very similar blog post last week! I would love to connect and chat @jsomers. Where can I message you?

(My blog post btw if you’re curious https://bhave.sh/make-humans-analog-again/)

I wrote up a detailed breakdown of a small home server I’ve been running on a Raspberry Pi (~3W power draw, about $1/month).

It started as a way to automate a weekly dance newsletter, but turned into a full setup:

- scraping pipeline (browser-based, runs on cron) - remote dev from my phone using Claude Code - private networking via Tailscale (no public-facing IP) - Django backend + Telegram bot for publishing

One unexpected benefit: scraping from a residential IP has been much more reliable than using a VPS.

I tried to focus on the tradeoffs and why I chose each piece, not just the tools.

Hope it gives some inspiration and/or you can share your own home server setups: https://bhave.sh/how-cheap-agent-dev-server/

Hi hackers, my friends recently asked me to make a tutorial showing how to set up their phone with adblockers and dark mode. So I did! Hope it helps you browse the web more calmly. Below I copied my youtube blurb so you know what the video is about (pls don't mind the overly compelling/engaging text copy).

Take control of your iPhone and stop letting websites overload your brain. In this short video, I show you 3 free iPhone hacks that instantly make web browsing calmer, cleaner, and less distracting.

You’ll learn: • How to install a powerful Safari ad blocker • How to watch YouTube ad-free • How to force dark mode on every website to protect your sleep and avoid melatonin disruption at night

Hi hackers, I made a tutorial and video on 2 different ways (GUI and CLI) of installing MicroPython on an ESP32. Hope it's helpful to those of you who want to try out hardware/embedded projects while leveraging your Python skills (and not having to learn Arduino or C/C++). Feel free to me ask any questions/clarifications here if you'd like :)

Yes whoops tactile

One important aspect missing is tactical feedback. The mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen all provide that but Vision Pro doesn’t. We have evolved several nervous system sensors (touch, pressure, temperature) for this and it is just as “human” as spatial reasoning and hand manipulation of objects

I totally agree with the “undemanding Canadians” view…so true! I moved here 12 years ago from Dubai and the demands/standards of business and service are way lower here. Pros are that it’s laid back and chill, cons are that we are unlikely to lead and innovate because we are satisfied with the status quo

My mind is so friggin blown, github will run arbitrary cron jobs for you?! Can't believe other services make you pay for that.

That's true, concurrency is becoming an important consideration and is probably why predictable and FP-oriented langs like Elixir, Rust, Clojure are having good growth.

As for mutating state, I come from an embedded software (microcontrollers) background haha and there's no option but to mutate state

That's a really cool example of how it can work behind the scenes, thanks

Yes lazy evaluation is a good one. I believe Python does have that with its generators/yield syntax, but I found lazy evaluation simpler to work with in Haskell

Ah ok, thanks for clarifying that

Damn, that’s a really detailed exposition of the whole mechanical Turk economy

Really cool! Is this intended for individual users or for keeping dev environment in sync across teams of people?

Distributed Energy Resources, or a fancy way of saying "solar, batteries, heat pumps, smart thermostats, etc", i.e. any distributed (as opposed to centralized) sources/users of energy

We built a tool for Ontarians (Canada) to easily find permits for solar and battery energy projects.

It can be complicated to fulfil the permitting requirements for all the different utility and building jurisdictions out there. But we absolutely must overcome this barrier in order to accelerate renewable energy in the province!

My cofounder Mike scoured through utility documents, building permits, hidden web pages and took long phone calls so you don't have to :)

P.S. if you found this valuable or think that it needs more info / clarity to be truly useful, please let us know

I really love all the random hobbies that people have

Your stack sounds perfectly fast and cheap and scalable and modern. Stick with it. If you want to run multiple apps in one DO droplet to save money, use dokku

Loved the “shallow dive” approach, it makes Rust look a lot more approachable

Drones with cameras and facial recognition. And a “money gun” that shoots a dollar at every new person it sees

Second this! Hilarious book but also very practical

I teach coding tutorials on my website and have a few subscribers. I occasionally send out a mass email asking them what they’d like to learn. Sometimes I send a tiny survey instead of asking such an open ended question. Every time I’ve received at least a couple of responses.

Lovely visualization! Reminds me of the principles used by Bret Victor to teach things well - allow the learner to play with time and space of the simulation so they can understand the system fully. Thank you for making this

Thank you! I wonder what other possibilities there are

'Nuitka' might be what you're looking for

This is a positive sign - it means there've been so many more signups lately! I did just convert a whole bunch of close friends over to Signal this past week, so I hope they can ride out this temporary outage and not leave the service :'( It took too much 'social effort' to move them all over

We have no specific preference for hydrogen vs helium balloons at the moment

In the video, we show a flight test of our system hanging from a helicopter - however, our actual launches will happen while hanging from a high altitude balloon, not a helicopter. The helicopter test gives us a way to test the performance of our yaw control system (to point the rocket along a desired heading) without having to do a full blown balloon launch.

Thank you! :) Canada is a great place to build a space launch company

The helicopter flight was a test of our gondola's ability to control the heading of the rocket. Our actual launches are not on a helicopter but rather on a high altitude balloon, which allows us to go up and launch from the stratosphere.